Discussion and sharing of issues
The information and awareness campaign on food safety related to the presence of wild boars in the area, promoted by the Prevention Department of the ASL of Bari, continues. Today at 15.30:XNUMX pm in the council chamber of the Municipality of Altamura, there was the second edition of the round table on the theme “Wild Swine and Food Safety: A New Paradigm for Consumer Health”, organized by the SIAV B Macroarea Nord Veterinary Service of the Department of Prevention, with the patronage of the Municipality of Altamura and the Order of Veterinarians of Bari. “The event – explains Teresa Di Gioia, head of the SIAV B Macroarea Nord Veterinary Service – aims to discuss and share the problems, knowledge, and skills useful for defining a possible common strategy for the management of wild fauna, while guaranteeing and respecting the balance between the territory, humans and the animals that populate it. The health risks deriving from the consumption of the meat of wild pigs that reach the consumer's table will also be illustrated, for timely and effective control”.
Treatments and therapies
In this context, attention is focused on African Swine Fever (ASF), a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs, which threatens the welfare of the animals themselves because to date there is a lack of preventive vaccines, maintenance treatments or curative therapies; and which therefore negatively impacts the entire pig production chain. The disease also has significant psychological repercussions on humans in the social and cultural sphere. In this context, the Veterinary Services of the Department - SIAV A, SIAV B, SIAV C - operate in an integrated and synergic manner, proposing the control of the wild pig population and the application of the new Regional Plan of Urgent Interventions (PRIU) for the eradication of the disease in the territory, where the presence of wild populations and in particular of pigs is recorded as progressively and constantly increasing. The role and contribution of the territorial hunting associations are important.
Jobs
The opening of the meeting will feature institutional greetings from the acting general director of the ASL, Luigi Fruscio, the health director, Luigi Rossi, and the director of the Prevention Department, Fulvio LONGO. Speakers will include the director of the Health and Wellbeing Promotion section of the Puglia Region, Dr. Onofrio Mongelli; the directors of the ASL Veterinary Services and the representatives of the Territorial Hunting Area of the province of Bari and the Bari sections of the Italian Federation of Hunting and Free Hunting.
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